Cell phone services are critical to enhancing access to telecommunications in developing countries or rural areas where fixed lines remain limited. Africa has the highest reported growth rate: 260 million subscribers in 2007. However, accurate numbers are hard to come by. A single person may have multiple subscriptions, or they may be pre-paid customers which are difficult to count.
Broadband access remains prohibitively expensive for many living in developing countries. This has led to what is commonly termed the “digital divide”. Africa has one of the lowest rates of subscription; in comparison, Europe’s is one hundred times higher. The top two countries with the highest broadband penetration per capita are also in Europe: Iceland and Denmark.
McCain Attack Ads From Famous Directors
John Woo, Kevin Smith and Wes Anderson.
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I got caugt up today on the XKCD blog and it looks like someone did actually make this happen, per my request a few weeks ago.
Exploiting Sound, Exploring Silence
Mr. Burwell found that most musical instruments didn’t fit with the minimalist sound sculpture he had in mind, so he used singing bowls, standing metal bells traditionally employed in Buddhist meditation practice that produce a sustained tone when rubbed. For one of the few interior scenes with score — Chigurh menacing a service-station owner with a fateful coin flip — he tuned the music’s swelling hum to the 60-hertz frequency of a refrigerator.
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New Muppets Viral: The Muppets pay Tyson the Skateboarding Dog a visit.
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Muppets & Dogs on skateboards? I’m so in.
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http://www.good.is/wp-content/plugins/video/component.swf?playlist=http://www.good.is/episode/12712&height=360&width=640
If Mos Def Were President
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On his generative art blog, Art From Code, Keith Peters takes algorithm and creates beautiful visualizations. (via Neatorama)
We carved pumpkins.
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Tomiko Konishi was a young girl the day the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima. At the age 58, she drew a sobering series of images to tell her story. (via notcot)
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1459865&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=c9ff23&fullscreen=1
Neat old infomercial on Linotype machines. Amazing what could be done mechanically!
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So you’ve gotten rid of the FireWire 400 port and now you’re migrating all your machines to the mini display port?
Hey, Jobsy can’t help that we’re still operating in 2005, or that we think FireWire400 is perfectly useable or don’t want to invest hundreds/thousands to upgrade old drives…
Again, the lack of Firewire 400 on the MBP can be solved with a simple FW800>FW400 cable for like ten bucks, or with an Expresscard which is nice because it lets separate HDs run on a different bus anyway. BUT this means something far more significant to the Macbook audience (or those of us who are the goto guy for all of our friends who fuck up their Macbooks): No more target-disk mode. It has been the first and most important step in diagnosing problematic macs since its »
So you’ve gotten rid of the FireWire 400 port and now you’re migrating all your machines to the mini display port?
That sure is some “pro” you’ve got there jobs.
Hey, Jobsy can’t help that we’re still operating in 2005, or that we think FireWire400 is perfectly useable or don’t want to invest hundreds/thousands to upgrade old drives…
Really, *no* FireWire 400? dick move…
I don’t think he’s stuck in 2005, rather in 2075. Jobs despises ports/buttons. He wants to simplify the computer until you’re actually physically manipulating data with your hands.
It’s an understandable goal, and I think the right move for apple. They’re good at being the vanguard of technology. But to force this uber simplicity on their entire portable product line seems unnecessary and detrimental to anyone looking to use this machine for any sort of »
So you’ve gotten rid of the FireWire 400 port and now you’re migrating all your machines to the mini display port?
That sure is some “pro” you’ve got there jobs.
Hey, Jobsy can’t help that we’re still operating in 2005, or that we think FireWire400 is perfectly useable or don’t want to invest hundreds/thousands to upgrade old drives…
Really, *no* FireWire 400? dick move…
I don’t think he’s stuck in 2005, rather in 2075. Jobs despises ports/buttons. He wants to simplify the computer until you’re actually physically manipulating data with your hands.
It’s an understandable goal, and I think the right move for apple. They’re good at being the vanguard of technology. But to force this uber simplicity on their entire portable product line seems unnecessary and detrimental to anyone looking to use this machine for any sort of video production.
A new “installation” at the Tate Britian is made up of groups of runners sprinting through the neoclassical galleries. Work No. 850, which will continue at the museum until November 16, is a non-stop relay race back and forth through the museum, with each 15-second dash accompanied by a 15-second pause.
The original museum runners were the trio from Godard’s “Bande à Part” in 1964.
(New Tate Britain Exhibition Is Tres Derivative)
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